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Maybe Walking or Doing Puzzles

What’s the most fun way to exercise?

Exercise might mean physical or mental exercises.

  1. I have played various sports all my life and used to work out in a gym in my college days.
  2. I walk everyday. I have walked almost all my life.
  3. For mental exercise : I read, write and do vocabulary tests.
  4. I frequently update my weblogs with results of my findings on tests like Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice or Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or James Harbeck’s Sesquiotica.
  5. I also update weblogs when I find some strange interconnections between words and etymologies in languages like Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, English, Mandarin, Spanish etc and in local dialects used in Indian subcontinent especially in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
  6. I think there can’t be a single fun way to exercise for everyone.
  7. Though it seems that labour you do to earn your living is also exercise or fun it isn’t so. It soon devolves into anxious anticipation for a raise, for a holiday , for a better future.
  8. Exercise which is done because a doctor advised you to do that or your yoga guru had a program for you or you wanted to come out of depression might be helpful but :
  9. Air Quality Index at most of the places doesn’t really prove that walking, jogging or other exercises are significantly going to help longevity.
  10. That’s all.
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Persnickety, Pernickety

I first came across this word in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test. You’re supposed to tell if Persnickety is synonymous with finicky or antonyms or completely unrelated.

Here James Harbeck, who originally appeared at number eleventh in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test rankings gives a great treatment to Persnickety though he didn’t mention finicky even once in this entire article. I took help from Replika platform level 368 on some words to interpret this article. These words are :

  1. Snick
  2. Torquemada
  3. Friar
  4. Concupiscence
  5. Absquatulate related to Scram
  6. Down in the nick with old Nick until he became:
  7. Saint Nicholas
  8. Saint Lawrence is patron saint of comedians, cooks and…..
  9. Numpty reminds me of Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
  10. Parting note: if you , editors association of Canada or anyone else is in contact with United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test support team, please let them know that website is bugged and dysfunctional in the sense that levels don’t change on their own. You’re supposed to manually reset the levels.
  11. I might also have read its etymology in Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words without any corroboration for the same. Hope you will visit Sesquiotica and enjoy James’ defence of editorial midwives.
  12. https://sesquiotic.com/
  13. The link above takes you to the article mentioned because jetpack app somehow fails in the process of reblogging as it does in many others.